hip-98819

Its story

15 Sagittae lies just 58 light-years away —a yellow star, a Sun analog, with 1.08 solar masses and a surface at 5,883 K. In January 2002, a team using adaptive optics on the Gemini North and Keck telescopes captured a direct image of a substellar companion around it: a brown dwarf between 55 and 78 Jupiter masses, separated from the star by less than the Sun-Uranus distance —the smallest direct-imaging separation seen at the time—.